Glendon Gross:
>Is there anyone interested in rewriting that "fake" partition table,
Please look at the thread with the same topic three weeks ago.
I stated that it wouldn't be possible because there is a fundamental
disagreement:
BIOS standard demands that the first *sector* always remains reserved.
However DD mode only reserves the first *block* and starts with the
actual contents at the second block. This (intentionally) violates BIOS
standards. Though many BIOSsen will happily accept it, some will get
picky and refuse to boot a DD disk due to standards violation.
If you would leave the first *sector* reserved with DD mode, you are
basically left with the layout of non-DD mode, so this is pointless.
>or is that requirement satisfied by the non-dedicated format?
Exactly. Non-DD follows the BIOS standards, so it will serve you fine,
at the "expense" of losing some few kB of disk space.
>it
>would be aesthetically more pleasing to be able to use the
>dedicated format.
Fully agree. However there are things in the BIOS architecture that
don't care about aesthetics. After all, this is the PC world.
Helge
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